Good point, a triple / single bonded carbon should be linear IIRC. Cyclopropane (3-carbon ring) always amazed me - the bonds want to be tetrahedral at 109.5 but are strained all the way to 60.

Compiled, not compiled, whatever... real programmers burn every algorithm into an ASIC.

Well I'd finally blocked the memory until you reminded me o_O

Lewis Black - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. Because anytime you say soy juice, you actually... start to gag."

What is a man? Is it being prepared to do the right thing? Whatever the cost? Isn’t that that makes a man?

Windows Phone 8.1, Lumia 920, no contract here. $200 bought and paid for. Does everything I need including Internet, GPS, photos, OneDrive sync, all the business apps I need, and most of the popular apps I don't need. And calls! Dad has the Lumia 635 which does all of the same things, just a little slower with an ok camera, for $70. For most people, a $700 phone is a luxury.

This eliminates all such worries this system is designed to prevent.

Suicide booths, finally a reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I had to read it 3 times just to make sure I wasn't losing my mind...

... can I assume I have a way of getting it *into* space?

But of course they are.

"In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics."

Many philosophers would disagree with that.

I would rather have half the detail at 60 FPS. I perceive a huge difference in 30 vs 60 FPS, yet I notice very little difference in graphic quality for systems with double the graphics horsepower. For me, faster graphics hardware is producing diminishing returns in visual quality but the framerate is very noticeable.

My laptop has an 8600M and has some overheating issues.
I was able to solve the problem quite simply though by not playing games on it anymore :/.

That's a good point... I've read a lot of comments from people freaking out about being able to bring these on a plane.

I was once boarding a plane and accidentally scuffed my feet across the carpet. I brushed my hand by someone else and triggered a static arc that must have been close to 50,000 degrees. The plane was still able to take off. True story.